MY FAVORITE DEMO HERE !!!
How could "the" >DEMO< be ranked second behind that shit of "odyssey" ?
never will know. HUge amount of original effect: the 4 years following this was only re-use of "HARDWIRED" effects.Rez, Only 20 second of the module is taken from panther,If I rember well.

*The* classic among classic Amiga demos, Hardwired was truly an *event* when it came out. Sporting effects that still feel fresh, one of Jesper Kyd's most epic soundtracks, superb design, and some spectacular 2D art, this demo's influence to this very day can be seen in a lot of modern productions. This is what happens when the creators know they're good at what they do... and do it.

I like it! I have the DivX and it rules.
I notice everyone caught Panther by David Whittaker, but nobody noticed the Tubular Bells cover, and probably some other covers in there...
I like the way the music flows from melody to melody.
And the effects are cool too, especially the opening sequence (looks like the game Homeworld copied them)

i saw it in 92, so i comment it like i saw it before
started good but strange with bad feelings, novative
but the other parts are not my cup of tea : like the 3d toilets (this raytraced scene are buggy in lots of spreaded disks, it was hard to find a clean copy)
in fact, i never liked this one, it's and it stay piggy for me

First demo I've ever seen on any computer on an A1000 from a public domain club in Duesseldorf, a few mins later Voyage by Razor. Man, I was IMPRESSED! First part rulez surpreme! I will never forget about it!

arguably the most revolutionary demo ever. imho this prod took the demoscene into a new era. just a massive amount of cool innovating effects with great ideas behind them. the rest (design, gfx, music) is also cool, but that's not the special thing about this one.

monroe's comparison with 2nd reality is very relevant. also atari falcon demos had adaptations of hardwired effects for some years.

This one runs in the blood of every scener of the early nineties. If I ever get one of those smileyhearts, this is where I'll put it. Imho this is THE most important demo in the history of the Amiga scene.

still after all those years it's unbelieveable how a brilliant demo like this could be only 2nd behind a bullshit like alcatraz odyssey demo (which offers absolutly nothing and is only a lame slideshow)

I'm quite pissed off because of the music rip. This is Panther by Whittaker. Nothing else. How many graphics, music, code were ripped this way?
That's really frustrating. It's important for the demoscene to do some soul-searching sometimes and this side is the dark one. So piggy. I've never thought it sucks though.

Great stuff! Cube side transforming into a Hardwired logo, the wireframe object transforming into different object in an unusual way rule! Of course there are more cool effects but these are the ones that i think about if someone asks me the question what's your favorite effect in Harwired. Also the music and most of the effects rule!

Nah... another one of those demos which are hyped for reasons that are far beyond my mind. The music is quite good, but the rest is simply average - not bad, but also not that exiting (even for that time) --> piggy.

I actually paid for this demo, as in 90s there was no internet to download from, dialing onto a BBS was unreal, I was too young for copy parties, and the only person in town who had a copy was that pirate who was charging for copying every single disk (there were no copyright laws here yet).
It was a version with corrupted loo animation, and due to my memory config it was crashing on the sponge scene - only lately I saw the whole thing.
Surely a classic.

p.s.: Of course the ST is a tribute to David Whittaker's Panther but I see nothing wrong with that (we all did that back then and everyone knew the tune(s). nowadays not giving credit would be considered lame, though..different times, I guess!) I happen to know the track from his Amiga remix for the game Sidewinder -- came with the (second-hand) miggy I got in '89 :D

Fuckings to The Spy and Murphy for making me waste way too much time fixing their 48 faces glenz vector part. Next time (*giggle*) you might want to read the 68000 manual, specially the section about bset and memory locations. bset #1,$dff02e == THE HORROR! I learnt to hate this very demo with a passion. But it's still a masterpiece of course! :)

Everything is said about the demo -- so I can add nothing new.
However, screenshot anim is also great -- in the case you've watched the demo many times and remembered it. It just shows all the important parts, allowing to remember their taste again and again in short time.
I wish every demo here had such a screenshot.

This demo significantly raised the bar for demos at the time - consistent design and colors, impressive effects (at the time), stylish intro, efficient use of 1mb, lots of attitude. A shame it didn't win that competition

Yeah, should have won. That year's best Amiga demo, and one of the best A500 demos ever made. One of the first demos with good design. The effects are great - I love the pixelized vectors!. Jesper Kyd's music fits the demo perfectly, and it's another reason this demo stood out from the crowd back in 1991. Gfx also fit the demo very well.